Fishbone ingestion is a common occurrence and patients present with various symptoms, posing challenges to the attending physicians. Here, we present two unique cases of patients with an unexpected rapidly migrating fishbone in the tongue. The first patient was operated transorally because of a foreign body embedded in the genioglossus muscle. In the second patient, CT scan located a fishbone embedded in the left hyoglossus muscle; however, the fishbone had to be relocated intraoperatively using bedside ultrasound guidance and was eventually found embedded within the mylohyoid muscle. The fishbone was successfully removed via transcervical approach following a failed transoral approach.
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